William Shockley was born in February 13, 1910 and died August 12, 1989 at age 79. William Shockley was an inventor and a physicist, he is the manger of a research group, his group got rewarded for the "Nobel Prize" in physics. William has been trying to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950's to the 1960's led to "Silicon Valley" which becoming popular in electronics innovations. In Williams later life he became a professor of electronic engineering in Stanford University. William in his early life received a science degree from Cal-tech in 1932, later William then received a Ph.D. degree from MIT in 1936. William Shockley joined a big group/company called Bell Telephone in 1936 and then later invented the Transistor, then he later developed a better model of the transistor called "The Point-Contact Transistor" in 1947. At the start of World War 2, Shockley started to get involved in the radar research at the Bell Labs. In May 1942, he left bell labs and became a professor at the Columbia University's Anti- Submarine Warfare Operations Group.
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When did he join Bell Telephone?
When did he leave Bell Telephone, and after what did he do?
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